Your Own Closed Sign
Leave the sign in the still blank. Type the closed hours in the caption, in your own words.
Your closed sign's words belong in the caption. The board in the still stays blank, with no letters, no hours, and no logo painted on it. You say, once, that you are closed, and you name the day or the hours you actually mean. The first 3 seconds carry that fact. One person speaks beside the door. Type the same words in the upper middle. Burn them in if the file will also go to TikTok or Shorts. If the face or the voice looks real, label it as AI, and leave the platform label visible. Stand at the door with a blank board in the window, say the real close once, and type those same words in the upper middle. Keep one speaker. A practical reel is 15–45 seconds. The first 3 seconds show the baker and the unmarked board, and they say the shop is closed and name the day that closure is real. Reject strokes on the board, a greeting before the fact, or a tour of the street. If the face or the voice could be mistaken for a real person, the caption must say it is AI, and the platform label stays visible.
A blank board is the prop
The shape of a sign can be in the window so the picture reads as a door. The surface stays unmarked. Do not ask the model to letter it. Generated writing will not match your real hours, and it is painful to correct. If a stroke appears, reject the still before the host speaks. Let the sign shape read as a door, then reject the still if a letter appears, before the host speaks. The first 3 seconds show the blank board and say the close. Do not ask the model to letter the hours onto the board before you post.
You type the real close
The caption states the closed day or the hours you keep, in words you would put on the actual board. The upper middle holds that line, clear of the face. Burned-in captions help when the same file goes to TikTok or Shorts. The spoken line and the typed line match. A greeting does not come first. Type the closed day or the hours you keep, burn the line in if the file will also go to TikTok or Shorts, and match it to the voice. In the first 3 seconds the caption and the mouth agree on the close. Do not post a greeting in front of that fact.
One person at the door
The host stands where the blank board and the face both fit. One speaker. The first 3 seconds are the close, not a tour of the street. A realistic face or voice is labeled as AI in the caption. The platform label stays where it was placed. The board remains blank in every frame. Frame the blank board and the face together, one speaker, and keep the board blank in every later frame. In the first 3 seconds, viewers see the door and hear the close. Throw out a street tour or a covered platform label before the file goes up.
A worked example
A baker stands at the door with a plain board in the window. The board has no letters. The first sentence says the shop is closed and names the day that closure is real. The caption repeats it in the upper middle and says the host is AI. A still that painted a word on the board is rejected. Hold the plain board in the window, say the real closed day, and reject the still that painted a word. The first 3 seconds show the baker and the blank board and say the close. One speaker, 15–45 seconds. If the face looks real, the caption says the host is AI, and the platform label stays in place.
Before you post
- Keep the sign blank in the still.
- Type the real close in the caption.
- Label a realistic host as AI.
Where Scro fits
Scro has one person speak the close, with 13 caption styles for the words that would have been on the sign. Export 9:16. If the face or the voice is realistic, label it as AI and leave the platform label in place. Put the words that would have been on the sign into one caption style, then export 9:16. The first 3 seconds show the blank board and say the close. Reject painted letters. If the face or voice could be mistaken for a real person, the caption says it is AI.
Leave the board blank. Finished samples are on the examples page.
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